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Descriptor English: | Puerto Rico | ||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Puerto Rico
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Porto Rico | ||||
Descriptor French: | Porto Rico | ||||
Entry term(s): |
Commonwealth de Porto Rico |
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Tree number(s): |
Z01.107.084.900.750 Z01.639.880.750 |
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RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011647 | ||||
Scope note: | An island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies. Its capital is San Juan. It is a self-governing commonwealth in union with the United States. It was discovered by Columbus in 1493 but no colonization was attempted until 1508. It belonged to Spain until ceded to the United States in 1898. It became a commonwealth with autonomy in internal affairs in 1952. Columbus named the island San Juan for St. John's Day, the Monday he arrived, and the bay Puerto Rico, rich harbor. The island became Puerto Rico officially in 1932. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p987 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p436) |
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Annotation: | an island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies; for Puerto Rico as a geog entity (as in epidemiol articles) & for Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico; for Puerto Ricans living in the United States as an ethnic group, coord PUERTO RICO /ethnol (NIM) + HISPANIC OR LATINO (IM) |
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Allowable Qualifiers: |
EH ethnologie EP épidémiologie |
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DeCS ID: | 12083 | ||||
Unique ID: | D011647 | ||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||
Date Established: | 1966/01/01 | ||||
Date of Entry: | 1999/01/01 | ||||
Revision Date: | 2012/07/03 |
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Preferred term | Porto Rico |
Entry term(s) |
Commonwealth de Porto Rico |
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